Since joining BCLP, Alex has advised:

• The Crown Estate on a £24b joint venture with Lendlease; and
• Tristan Capital Partners, on its €400m pan European easyHotel takeover

 

Prior to joing BCLP, Alex’s experience includes advising:

Transactional

• a global alternative investment management company in respect of the acquisition and financing, and subsequent sale of a pan-European logistics portfolio to Investec for €191m;
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board(CPPIB) on the establishment of investment platforms for the purchase of non-performing loan portfolios across Europe, and the subsequent acquisition of such portfolios;
• CPPIB on its sale of Amitra Capital Limited, an asset manager, to Arrow Global Group Limited;
• CVC Capital Partnerson its investment, and partnership with Fédération de Volleyball Internationale, in Volleyball World;
• Luxinva S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ADIA, as co-investor on the recommended cash acquisition of Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC valued at £4.46bn, as part of a consortium led by Swedish investment firm EQT Fund Management S.a.r.l.;
• Montagu on the sale of Servelec, a software company, to The Access Group;
• Mubadala Capitalon its successful bid for the Witherslack Group from funds managed by Charme Capital Partners and Livingbridge;
• Saint-Gobain on the sale of all of its merchanting brands in the UK – including the builders and timber merchant Jewson – to the Stark group based on an enterprise value of €850 million;
• Tullow Oilon the sale of its entire stake in the Lake Albert Development Project in Uganda to Total Energies for US$575 million in cash plus post first oil contingent payments;
• Schoen Clinic Groupon its sale of Schoen Clinic London to Fortius Clinic, the UK’s largest single orthopaedic MSK group;
• several sovereign wealth funds on their global investment programmes (USA, Europe, Asia Pacific), including investment rounds in growth companies, direct investments and co-investments;
• a sovereign wealth fund on the refinancing of two prominent London skyscrapers; and
• a joint venture between two sovereign wealth fundson the disposal of its interest in another joint venture which holds a London skyscraper.

 

Disputes and investigations

• a multinational investment bank on a complex, high value dispute with HMRC relating to transfer pricing and the controlled foreign company rules concerning an internal financing structure;
• a prominent UK corporation on employment tax disputes affecting a substantial section of its workforce.
• a market-leading algorithmic trading firm on an HMRC investigation relating to: (i) the application of the ‘bank surcharge TAAR’; (ii) transfer pricing of internal royalties payments; and (iii) the application of the ‘mixed-member' rules;
• an international oil and gas company on several (arbitration) disputes with a West African state concerning: (i) branch profits remittance tax; (ii) withholding tax on interest payments; (iii) thin capitalisation; and (iv) the taxation of insurance payments;
• an international software company on an HMRC investigation concerning the application of ‘IR35’ to the company’s engagement of external consultants in the UK; and
• a US headed energy company on an indirect-CGT dispute with an East African company in relation to an asset disposal by the client’s Mauritian subsidiary.

 

Advisory

• a prominent UK corporation on the establishment of internal policies and procedures relating to ‘IR35’ risk;
• a multinational investment bank on numerous internal financing transactions, including providing detailed tax opinions;
• Associated British Ports on numerous ad hoc VAT queries; and
• a multinational investment bank with respect to the tax treatment of certain ESG-related finance products.